Editorial.

The publication of this issue marks the close of the first year of the journal's partnership with Routledge. As you have probably noticed, the journal looks a bit different both inside and out. We have adopted a slightly different typographic style for manuscripts and have moved to a trim size that makes each issue just a little taller and wider than in the past. More significantly, the frequency of the journal has also increased and will now arrive in your mailbox not two but three times a year.

The journal's partnership with Routledge brings much more than mere physical change. Administratively, I am no longer in charge of renewing subscriptions, preparing invoices, managing the advertising, creating the mailing labels, maintaining the journal's website, copyediting manuscripts, resizing figures to match our page size, or registering the journal's copyright with the Library of Congress. These minutiae are absolutely essential to the successful management of a journal on a day-to-day basis, but are usually handled by an office staff that effectively renders them invisible or nearly so to most editors. Consequently, I am more than a little relieved to turn these duties over to the professionals at Routledge and focus my energy on attracting and publishing more of the best scholarship in cultural geography

That said, the Journal of Cultural Geography is in a solid position to grow in new and exciting ways. I aim to improve the international visibility of the journal. The journal has long had a sizable and firm base in the United States, but it is less familiar to cultural geographers beyond our borders. A broader, more international base is desirable because it opens additional lines of communication, promoting collective debate and discovery. As scholars first and cultural geographers second, it behooves us that our work should be disseminated widely.

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